We like fake stuff...

I was listening to the radio the other morning and they were making an editorial commentary on the fascination with the reality TV shows around luxury...Shows like The Real Housewives shows or Millionaire Matchmaker or The Hills...I'm sure you can think of many more as well.

Is it that we are fascinated with how the "rich folk" live or is it the drama that these shows manufacture...(I'm not stupid enough to believe that these reality shows aren't scripted at least a majority of the time...)?

For as much reality TV as there is out there, a lot of it is not reality...Beyond the scripting of it even...I have to be honest and say that I don't have a whole lot of friends like Snooki or eat party every night like they did on the Hills...So, whose reality is that really?

Do we as a culture fool ourselves to think that we like reality, when in fact we really want to escape from reality for a little bit?